David Persona

David is 20 year old college student attending the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.  

David comes from a middle class family that moved here from Taiwan. As he was growing up, his family influenced him with the Asian traditions and culture. While growing up in America, he also absorbed into the American culture. The result is a unique blend of American-Asian culture. He moved to Austin two years ago to attend college and plans to graduate soon as classes are becoming tiresome. Although some of the classes are extremely knowledgeable and interesting. He is a marketing major in the Business school. He chose marketing as a major because out of all the business majors, he believes that marketing is the most widespread and can be applied anywhere. And he considers it far more interesting than the other majors. He plans to start his own business when he graduates because to him the passion involved in creating something and crafting it into existence is amazing and thrilling. He believes it to be much more rewarding than any other job available. Because when someone considers their job a passion then that is when enjoyment of life can truly be fulfilled.  

David lives in s single bedroom apartment near the business school at the UT. The location is slightly more expensive but he is willing to pay the premium because of the location. The location is surrounded by several restaurants and CVS. This is extremely convenient especially traveling back from class to class. Being a college student, David struggles to find grocery needs and often finds himself asking friends to take him to the grocery store so he doesn’t end up on the verge of starving. He doesn’t like having a car in Austin because the parking is expensive for his apartment and the traffic in downtown area is very hard to navigate because of all the one-ways. He instead uses the Austin bus system, which is extremely effective both on campus and to the other areas of Austin. Another reason to use the bus is because it is extremely hot during the summer months. And walking back and forth from campus and the apartment could tire a person out or give them sunburn. Because of all this walking he purchased performance based sunglasses designed to block out sunlight to prevent eye degradation. He believes sunglasses to be quite a value due to all the walking around campus. He has been considering renting cars from the Car2go company based in Austin. It’s a company that allows for students to rent cars on the go anywhere around Austin. This way it would not cost much to rent a car seeming as he his uses for cars would be very limited.

On his free time, David enjoys reading believes that knowledge is accumulates. And that gaining knowledge of various aspects tremendously helps with experiences, situations, and life. He also devotes much of his time to cooking. Because he does not want to eat unhealthy foods, which is prevalent in college life. And sometimes hosts dinner parties so he can learn various styles of cooking. People always enjoy dinner parties because it’s a time for bonding and there is food. For the meals he doesn’t cook, he usually finds restaurants around his apartment which are convenient.  

David devotes much of his time to keeping his apartment clean and also implementing new ways to decorate his apartment. He searches for various items on Amazon and eBay that fit his style of decoration. He finds it difficult to match and coordinate all the elements of interior design together but believes that he will master it with time. It takes much effort to make sure everything is coordinated and looks cool and has still function. He believes that a good environment produces positive feelings, which in turn promotes productivity and that interior design is important.